Cramlington Village Primary School
Y5 Medium Term Plan Spring 2 2016/17
Topic: Asteroids Attack!
Key questions:
Week 1: How do we get a man on the moon?
Week 2:Is space exploration worth it?
Week 3:How have views about our solar system changed?
Week 4: How do astronauts survive in space?
Week 5:What is gravity?
Week 6:What does the Earth look like from space?
Key texts: G
​ eorge’s Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen and Lucy Hawking
Hello, is this planet Earth?: My View from the International Space Station by Tim Peake.
I will also be following the interests of individual children and planning their next steps, including individual targets and interventions.
Literacy
Writing activities/projects
Writing from viewpoint focused on whether
our country should spend £238,000,000on
sending a man to the moon. This will
include both researching facts and children
forming their own opinions.
Children have the opportunity to hear, read
and respond to a range of poems. They will
write and perform their own free verse
poems, inspired by those they have read.
Poems will include Edgar Allen Poe’s The
Raven, Alfred Noyes’ The Highwayman and
Rudyard Kipling’s If, in addition to other free
verse poems.
​Writing – vocabulary, grammar,
punctuation
Using apostrophes accurately to mark
possession, when using with plurals and for
contracted words.
Organising paragraphs around a theme.
Using speech marks correctly in our
narratives.
Using passive, modal and the perfect form
of verbs.
Use relative clauses and subordinate
clauses.
Using semi-colons, colons or dashes to
mark boundaries between independent
clauses.
Continuing to use richer and more varied
vocabulary for our descriptive pieces.
Pronouns and nouns and how to use them
effectively.
Continue to use full stops, capital letters,
commas, question marks and exclamation
marks correctly.
Children will continue to access daily Read,
Write, Inc spelling sessions to look at
spelling patterns.
Year 5
Speaking and Listening
Drama
To create a news report about
current news regarding space
exploration.
Children are also to conduct a
debate around their writing from a
viewpoint literacy work.
Reading - Comprehension
Review a range of poetry, narratives
and graphic novels to support and
inspire our own writing work.
If children are still accessing the
Read, Write, Inc scheme, they will
continue to have daily sessions.
Children accessing guided reading
lessons will continue to explore a
range of texts, with a focus on
comprehension and inference. Work
will further be supported by
questioning on language for effect
and themes and conventions within
the texts.
We will be continuing reading a
class text for pleasure this half-term,
which will be George’s Key to the
Universe by Stephen and Lucy
Hawkins.
Children will also have the
opportunity to read a short story or
poem in front of the class at the end
of the school day.
Handwriting
Continue to practice handwriting in
specific handwriting lessons, and
use this learning throughout the rest
of our lessons.
There is to be a particular focus on
keeping letters straight and self
assessing their own work.
Mathematics
All lessons and numeracy activities where
possible, will be centered around real life
practical examples to give children context to
their maths skills.
Activities/projects
Looking at the percentage of water and land
on Earth and converting this to a decimal.
Looking at fractional sizes of asteroids and
comparing these with each other.
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Read and write decimal numbers as
fractions. Use thousandths and relate them to
tenths and hundredths.
Round decimals with 2 decimal places to the
nearest whole number and to 1 decimal place.
Compare numbers with up to 3 decimal
places.
Solve problems involving number up to 3
decimal places.
Recognise the % symbol and understand that
per cent relates to ‘number of parts per 100’.
Write percentages as a fraction with
denominator 100, and as a decimal fraction.
Know decimal equivalents of
,
,
,
,
and those fractions with a denominator of
a multiple of 10 or 25
Statistics
Solve comparison, sum and difference
problems using information presented in a line
graph.
Complete, read and interpret information in
tables including timetables.
Physical Education, Forest
School and music
PSHE
Geography, ICT, History,
Science
Art, DT
Cookery, RE
PE
Children will be alternating
between inside and outside
PE, continuing their work
with hockey and gymnastics.
PSHE
Going for gold - looking at
aspirational figures and
understand what it means to
be ambitious. What
steps/targets can we set
ourselves before we leave
in Y6?
Geography
Researching where NASA is
based. Looking at the
topography of key asteroid
landing sites such as the
Vredefort Crater in South
Africa and Sudbury Basin in
Canada.
ART and DT
Designing and stitching our own
flags of a researched planet.
Researching and collecting
satellite images of Earth to create
a collage of a planet.
Thinking about how
determined and resilient
astronauts have to be linking this to themselves
and their goals, how they
should never give up. What
can we practice now to
ensure we get where we
want to be when we leave
school?
History
Children are to continue their
work into famous astronomers
such as Galileo and
Copernicus. This will be
supported by various speaking
and listening opportunities.
Forest School
Children will continue to
work on a number of projects
across the school. This will
include continuing to
decorate the concrete blocks
on the playground,
Music
For the next two half terms
KS2 will continue to be split
into three groups. Each
group will be working with
Jenny and rotating three
topics; learning to play the
keyboard, learning to play
the recorder and studying
music theory.
Beginning to look at
changes in our bodies and
how we manage these.
Continuing to explore whole
class Thrive activities that
focus on team work,
friendship and trust.
ICT
Creating videos and
presentations of what they
have learnt about space using
Adobe Spark and using
augmented reality apps (such
as Aurasma) to add extra
detail to displays and projects.
The final piece for the project
will be an informative video
featuring the whole of KS2
centred around planets and
our solar system, the galaxy
and stars, along with the
history and evolution of our
knowledge of space.
Cookery
Looking at how to prepare a
balanced ‘packed lunch’ for a
Russian Spaceman. Making,
Zharkoye, Olivie
And Blini.
RE
Children are to continue learning
about Hinduism, with a focus on
Hindu holidays and the role of the
pandit.
Children will also be doing work
on Michael Foreman’s Seasons of
Splendor.
Science
Children are to recognise a
number of forces , and to use
the force arrow model to
represent these forces in a real
life context.
Children will also be able to
explain the force of gravity as
a force that acts between the
Earth and other objects, in
addition to identifying the
effects of air resistance, water
resistance and friction.
These forces are to be
understood through practical
applications in addition to
children conducting their own
scientific experiments.
Reading area: The Minecraft reading area will continue to be used as a reward and relax area.
VIP Sofa: Year 5 will be introducing a numeracy and literacy star for excellent work. Chosen children will be allowed to sit on the sofa
during teaching time in lessons.
Forest school - Wednesday afternoon
PE - Monday and Friday afternoon
Wow moments
Sponsored star gaze. Camping outside on the school field to watch the stars, eat dinner from the forest school fire and meet a real life
Astronomer!
With Y3 and Y4, creating a KS2 information video all about space.